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Ezekiel #283828 12/15/15 05:22 PM
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RNC: Save us Ted Cruz, you're our only hope
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RNC hopes Ted Cruz's raise in poll saves them from The Donald
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Exclusive: Trump's Full Medical Report

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National Review obtained the following long-form version of a letter from Mr. Trump's physician detailing his health history.

To Whom It Will Concern: I have been the personal physician of Mr. Donald J. Trump since 1968. His previous physician was my father, Dr. Edith Bernofsky. I am pleased to report that, at no point since he was unable to fight in Vietnam, has Mr. Trump had any significant medical problems.

During a recent comprehensive medical examination, Mr. Trump revealed himself to be quite extraordinarily healthy. While I conducted my array of tests, he singlehandedly held me above his magnificent head and spun me around and around and around -- quite the thrill.
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Originally Posted by Golem
Exclusive: Trump's Full Medical Report

Charles C. W. Cooke
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National Review obtained the following long-form version of a letter from Mr. Trump's physician detailing his health history.

To Whom It Will Concern: I have been the personal physician of Mr. Donald J. Trump since 1968. His previous physician was my father, Dr. Edith Bernofsky. I am pleased to report that, at no point since he was unable to fight in Vietnam, has Mr. Trump had any significant medical problems.

During a recent comprehensive medical examination, Mr. Trump revealed himself to be quite extraordinarily healthy. While I conducted my array of tests, he singlehandedly held me above his magnificent head and spun me around and around and around -- quite the thrill.
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I think this guy explains the Trump allure better than most. Not sure if you can open the link though:

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Beneath the dry statistics of the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we can see that future emerging. Over the next decade, the service sector will provide 95% of all the new jobs. Manufacturing, which shed more than two million jobs between 2004 and 2014, will shrink by an additional 800,000, to only 7% of the workforce. Of the 15 occupations with the most projected job growth, only four ask for a bachelor’s degree; eight require no formal education credentials; nine offer median annual wages under $30,000.

Few Americans know these statistics, but most of them are living the reality they represent. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the economy has ceased to work for households at and below the middle. A recent report from the Pew Research Center finds that the median income for middle-income households is about where it was in 1997. For lower-income households, median income stands where it did in 1996.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Well, you could have a few adult children living at home all with near minimum wage jobs. Three or four such wages might support a family. Sort of like the olden days when you raised a lot of kids to work the farm when you got old. You know, like 35 or 40.

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I am confident that the medical report is a fake. It states, "I am reliably informed that Mr. Trump is known among his peers in the services as "SuperRambo.'" That clearly cannot be true, as Mr. Trump has no peers.


A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Salon: Extremism Ends In Civil War

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They had promised poor white men that they, too, could rise to prosperity, then they had monopolized the land and the resources that made rising possible. Only rich families lived in fine houses, only rich sons got educations. When poor men called for the government to provide free Western land for farming, or for the government to dredge rivers to make it easier to transport goods to market, or even for schools, slave owners recoiled.


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Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
Capitalism is like a high powered engine, it can do remarkable thing when properly constrained, but is deadly in the wrong hands.

Capitalism is like FIRE.
It can cook your food and keep you safe and warm or it can burn down your village and you with it.

Like any force of nature, capitalism REQUIRES control and regulation.
Trump and the rest of the GOP clown car have this notion that somehow capitalism must be saved from harmful regulation due to its delicacy and fragility.


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Capitalism sends Chinese workers running into tunnels with dynamite strapped on their backs, to build railroads. Government regulation says you have to let them drop off the dynamite and run back out of the tunnel, before you set off the explosion.

Sort of a Blazing Saddles analogy, but it will suffice.

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